By Sunday morning, 85 percent of Tallahassee’s power grid was back online four days after Hurricane Michael nearly plunged the entire city into darkness.

There remains about 18,000 of the 117,000 total city of Tallahassee customers without power, according to the city's outage map. Outages are widespread, but are more concentrated in the Midtown area, South City and to the west in the Mission Road corridor.

About 3,500 Talquin Electric Cooperative customers in Killearn and the Lake Jackson areas are still in the dark. But in its other coverage areas, from the Georgia line out to Wewahitchka in the west and south down to Shell Point, more than 30,000 customers are not yet online.

Talquin's transmission lines leading to their substations were restored, except fore the Hinson Substation in Gadsden County, by Saturday. The Gadsden lines are expected to be repaired by this evening.

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the American Red Cross team up at Thomasville Road Baptist Church to make and package meals for locals on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

The National Guard, stationed throughout Tallahassee hands out ice, water, and meals ready to eat on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

The National Guard, stationed throughout Tallahassee hands out ice, water, and meals ready to eat on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

The National Guard, stationed throughout Tallahassee hands out ice, water, and meals ready to eat on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Operation BBQ Relief volunteers, stationed at the Northwood Centre in Tallahassee prepare meals for the community on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Volunteer and sides lead, Jerry Stitzel speaks about his work with Operation BBQ Relief and what the organization means to him on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Louisiana State Lead, Bryan Roppolo speaks about his work with Operation BBQ Relief and what the organization means to him on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Volunteer and sides lead, Jerry Stitzel speaks about his work with Operation BBQ Relief and what the organization means to him on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Operation BBQ Relief volunteers, stationed at the Northwood Centre in Tallahassee prepare meals for the community on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Operation BBQ Relief volunteers, stationed at the Northwood Centre in Tallahassee prepare meals for the community on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Operation BBQ Relief volunteers, stationed at the Northwood Centre in Tallahassee prepare meals for the community on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Operation BBQ Relief volunteers, stationed at the Northwood Centre in Tallahassee prepare meals for the community on Oct. 13, 2018, three days after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat

Places like Havana, Point Milligan, Bristol and Greensboro are reporting 100 percent outage.

Sunday morning, 48 percent of Talquin's Leon County customers were without power. In Gadsden County, 91 percent, in Wakulla County 40 percent and in Liberty 100 percent, were still in the dark.

At one point, 97 percent of the power grid was offline in Leon County after transmission lines, substation and distribution circuits suffered damage form the Category 4 storm. By Saturday, all of the city’s 20 substations and 32 of its 34 major transmission lines were back in service. City officials say they hope to have 90 percent of customers returned to power by the end of the weekend.

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter.

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Rob McGarrah, general manager of city electric, gives an update on power restoration.
Tallahassee Democrat

The Florida National Guard will be distributing water and Meals-Ready-to-Eat at the following locations: